Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are taking “Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!,” their Adult Swim program of surreal public-access absurdity, on tour under the banner of “Chrimbus Spectacular 2010.”
The tour starts November 1st in Seattle’s Showbox SODO and ends December 5th at Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse. The duo will make the performances a multimedia event with short films, sketches, musical numbers from Pusswhip Banggang and guest performers such as Neil Hamburger.
In many ways, Tim & Eric are the Boards of Canada of television, incorporating the charmingly nostalgic and warped sounds and visuals of public television. While Boards of Canada have always brought to the fore the dusty disintegration of reel-to-reel tapes found in cold storage, infusing them with both child-like and alchemical wonder, Tim & Eric somehow bridge the gap between video artists and the homemade VHS movie explosion of the 80s.
We all remember our very first camcorder videos as children: the stiff acting, primitive special effects, in-camera editing and the analogue flickers and bursts of light that always seemed to accompany our little movies. Heidecker and Wareheim absorbed that sense of anarchic creation and fed it through some of the video art techniques used by artists such as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Alex Bag and the Experimental Television Center in New York.
Whereas some video artists (think Knox Harrington from “The Big Lebowski”) create personas and work that go beyond artistic pretension—if that’s possible—Heidecker and Wareheim chose early on to invert the process and play up the absurdity. That they ‘ve been able to convince actors from Jeff Goldblum to John C. Reilly to participate in their madness is a wonder in and of itself. In fact, Reilly’s character Steve Brule might be Heidecker and Wareheim’s finest creation. You owe it to yourself to check out “Brule’s Rules” and the spin-off program “Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule,” ya Dungus (as Brule would say).
It should be interesting to see how the short films and projected video plays in a live setting.
Below are the Chrimbus Spectacular 2010 tour dates:
Nov. 1: Seattle — Showbox SODO
Nov. 2: Portland, Ore. — Roseland Theater
Nov. 3: Eugene, Ore. — WOW Hall
Nov. 4: Chico, Calif. — El Rey Theatre
Nov. 5: San Francisco — The Regency Ballroom
Nov. 6: Los Angeles — Club Nokia L.A. Live
Nov. 8: Albuquerque, N.M. — Sunshine Theater
Nov. 9: Denver — Ogden Theatre
Nov. 11: Dallas — Granada Theater
Nov. 12: Houston — Fitzgerald’s
Nov. 13: Austin — Paramount Theatre
Nov. 15: Kansas City, Mo. — Midland by AMC
Nov. 16: Milwaukee — The Pabst Theater
Nov. 17: Minneapolis — State Theatre
Nov. 18: Chicago — The Vic Theatre
Nov. 20: Columbus, Ohio — Newport Music Hall
Nov. 21: Detroit — Royal Oak Music Theatre
Nov. 22: Pittsburgh — Carnegie Library Music Hall
Nov. 23: Buffalo, N.Y. — Town Ballroom
Nov. 24: Philadelphia — The Trocadero Theatre
Nov. 26: Boston — Wilbur Theatre
Nov. 27: New York — Nokia Theatre Times Square
Nov. 28: Burlington, Vt. — Higher Ground
Nov. 29: Hartford, Conn. — The Webster
Nov. 30: Albany, N.Y. — Northern Lights
Dec. 1: Falls Church, Va. — State Theatre
Dec. 3: Nashville — Cannery Ballroom
Dec. 4: Louisville, Ky. — Headliners Music Hall
Dec. 5: Atlanta — Variety Playhouse
September 14, 2010 at 12:46 am, Crock12336 said:
anyone know how much tickets will cost?
September 14, 2010 at 2:56 am, DJ Pangburn said:
Didn't see any ticket prices when they announced the tour. Will post them when I find out.
September 14, 2010 at 4:23 pm, Erica Cason said:
I need to know asap how much the tickets are. My boyfriend would love to see them live. Seriously. When you know please let me know. It's oober important.
Much love, Erica.
Email me: erica.cason@yahoo.com
December 05, 2010 at 9:19 pm, interludejones said:
…and Steve Brule indeed made a spectacular Chrimbus appearance in Louisville. The finest. Bullseye!!